Huffington Post Pulitzer a Milestone for Digital Media

Last week, the Huffington Post received the first Pulitzer prize ever awarded to an online-only daily news publication. Writer David Wood received the prize for national reporting for the “Beyond the Battlefield” series, which explored the lives of wounded veterans returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Though the Pulitzer-winning series deals with a subject outside our focus area of futures markets, the award marks a milestone for online and digital media. When we launched OpenMarkets a little more than a month ago, we did it in part to embrace the possibilities an online magazine presents: more storytelling formats, more content, and more conversation. The Huffington Post has been a model for online publications of all kinds for several years, and we congratulate them on their award.

Anita Liskey Anita Liskey is the managing director of corporate marketing and communications at CME Group.

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OPENMARKETS online magazine, produced by CME Group, is designed to keep you up-to-date on developments that can enhance your successful participation in the dynamic derivatives industry. The magazine features customer case histories, new product information, technology updates, trend stories, and timely online-only news briefs.

About CME Group

About CME Group

As the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group is where the world comes to manage risk. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate. CME Group brings buyers and sellers together through the CME Globex electronic trading platform and trading facilities in New York and Chicago. CME Group also operates CME Clearing, one of the largest central counterparty clearing services in the world, which provides clearing and settlement services for exchange-traded contracts, as well as for over-the-counter derivatives transactions through CME ClearPort.